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I am happy for her to be aggressive and would forgive mistakes in court simply due to the value brought to society by her prominently going after these large an
by blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
I am happy for her to be aggressive and would forgive mistakes in court simply due to the value brought to society by her prominently going after these large anti-competitive companies. And yes she might fail to address that as well, but I wouldn’t ascribe that failure to her competency. The reality is that no one in this seat has even been trying. They’ve been asleep at the wheel as the economy gets increasingly captured by megacorps that don’t really face competition. And if she fails to rein them in, it’ll be because the existing law (antitrust law) is inadequate, more than anything else.
I think the attention she’s bringing to the issue will cause many people to ask why antitrust enforcement has to be so hard. Any company with more than $100B in revenue is a quasi-government, and damages fair competition merely through their existence. Instead of making enforcement rely on years-long court cases, we need more immediate ways to break up or regulate these companies, and what we have today is not enough. If her attempts make more people realize the current laws aren’t enough, that might be its own form of success.